Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #5

[Drcbelle]

I too am wondering about the Jingle Cruise. There was no mention of it on the blog but it is on the 2016 Holidays page on the Disneyland site. Hmmmmm....

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/events-tours/holidays-at-the-disneyland-resort/

 

[daveyc150]

When can I book the holiday tour?

So excited, this will be my first Disneyland Christmas

 

[Nimbusteach]

So excited that information has at least started. My husband and I are thinking of taking a holiday trip for our 2nd visit. We went at Halloween time two years ago and it was awesome. Is there a big difference between the 2nd and 3rd weekends? Say the 6-11 verse 13-18?

Thanks!

 

[MikeRx]

The dates are perfect for us as our son doesn't go back to school until the 10th of January! We will likely take a short 3 night trip January 3rd-6th to catch the end of the season. This means we get both Halloween and Christmas at the DLR! We have a reservation at the Tropicana and are wait-listed to rent DVC points at the Grand Californian. Now I have to convince the family that we need to stay on property...come on Disney, we need the January discount...The winter is the perfect time to combine the ebates, Orbitz/cheaptickets and Disney discounts!

Mike

 

[TraderCharlie]

Jingle Cruise will be back! It was updated on the blog.

 

[kirstie101]

I have seen the original version a number of times over the years and love it. I saw Celebrate twice last year and also fell in love. I watched Winter Dreams once in 2014 and felt that this was half an hour of my life that I was never going to get back.

Corinna

We enjoyed Winter Dreams when we saw it with the WOC lunch package at CC last year, but not enough to be willing to get the WOC package to see it again. We'll probably stop for it, but we'll just get FPs without the package. It's an OK version of the show, but not great. I actually enjoyed Celebrate much more.

Can you tell me more about it and why you didn't like it? We only have 2 nights so I'm trying to decide if its worth watching or not. We've seen the original version and Celebrate and enjoyed both. I actually loved celebrate, I know I'm in the minority there. It'll be me, my mom and my kids who are 5 and 9.

 

[Angel Ariel]

Can you tell me more about it and why you didn't like it? We only have 2 nights so I'm trying to decide if its worth watching or not. We've seen the original version and Celebrate and enjoyed both. I actually loved celebrate, I know I'm in the minority there. It'll be me, my mom and my kids who are 5 and 9.

It looks like this is a non-issue this year. Winter Dreams is being replaced by a new World of Color for this year's Holiday season - Season of Light. So no one knows what the show will be like yet

 

[kirstie101]

It looks like this is a non-issue this year. Winter Dreams is being replaced by a new World of Color for this year's Holiday season - Season of Light. So no one knows what the show will be like yet

Didn't even notice that! Thanks for pointing it out!

 

[DizneeRailFan62]

Can you tell me more about it and why you didn't like it? We only have 2 nights so I'm trying to decide if its worth watching or not. We've seen the original version and Celebrate and enjoyed both. I actually loved celebrate, I know I'm in the minority there. It'll be me, my mom and my kids who are 5 and 9.

I'm not sure about the others, but my wife and I saw WOC with the Carthay Circle dining plan and thought the show was too long and had no focus. It appeared to be thrown together to show off the fountains and lights, and just a hodge podge of stuff without a cohesive story. That is why so many other DLR shows have been successful, ie. Fantasmic, Believe in Holiday Magic, Wishes, etc. I really wanted to love WOC, but felt that there was no magic in it at all. I certainly hope this new WOC Season of Light turns out better. We'll be there Nov 28 - Dec 1, and at this point the wife would rather not see the show, so I'm not sure what we'll do. (My apologies to all those WOC fans out there...Please feel free to love the show all you want, this was just our opinion.)

 

[dolphingirl47]

I'm not sure about the others, but my wife and I saw WOC with the Carthay Circle dining plan and thought the show was too long and had no focus. It appeared to be thrown together to show off the fountains and lights, and just a hodge podge of stuff without a cohesive story.

This covers pretty well how I felt about this.

Corinna

 

[sgrap]

Can you tell me more about it and why you didn't like it? We only have 2 nights so I'm trying to decide if its worth watching or not. We've seen the original version and Celebrate and enjoyed both. I actually loved celebrate, I know I'm in the minority there. It'll be me, my mom and my kids who are 5 and 9.

It's basically World of Frozen. If you have a young Frozen-obsessed kid, watch it. Otherwise, skip it. We enjoyed the celebrate one very much last November, the winter one not at all really.

 

[ashnjam]

Sooooooo what about PTN?

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Sooooooo what about PTN?

The comments on the blog post say it's coming back for select nights and to check the entertainment schedule as it comes out. So really, a non answer.

 

[Astylla]

It's basically World of Frozen. If you have a young Frozen-obsessed kid, watch it. Otherwise, skip it. We enjoyed the celebrate one very much last November, the winter one not at all really.

World of Color is changing this holiday year so it won't be Winter dreams , so it might be worth a look into !

 

[chrisaman]

Unless they announce it earlier, the real tell tale sign about if paint the night will be back during the Christmas season or not will be if there is garland across Main Street. I know they said it will be back for select nights but I will believe it when I see it

 

[mom2rtk]

Unless they announce it earlier, the real tell tale sign about if paint the night will be back during the Christmas season or not will be if there is garland across Main Street. I know they said it will be back for select nights but I will believe it when I see it

The problem of course is that we have no idea what they mean by "select nights". It might just mean during the peak crowds of Christmas week. And even if it's that limited, the garlands would still not be up.

 

[gottalovepluto]

Oooh...14 themed festival marketplaces with international food and drinks? Cool! Sounds like a mini Food & Wine festival. Super excited for that!

Didn't the CA F&W festival only have like 7 or 8 booths? The Holiday blog post was giving me the impression this was a side thing but then I saw 14 marketplaces- it sounds like we could have a much bigger F&W on our hands! (It's also entirely possible I'm going WAY overboard here in my excitement.) My main question: will the booths be open during the week this time?!! IMHO the crowds during the holiday season are enough to support them. Fingers crossed!

 

[kirstie101]

Didn't the CA F&W festival only have like 7 or 8 booths? The Holiday blog post was giving me the impression this was a side thing but then I saw 14 marketplaces- it sounds like we could have a much bigger F&W on our hands! (It's also entirely possible I'm going WAY overboard here in my excitement.) My main question: will the booths be open during the week this time?!! IMHO the crowds during the holiday season are enough to support them. Fingers crossed!

I'm very interested to hear more about this too! We missed it last year.

 

[DLgal]

Didn't the CA F&W festival only have like 7 or 8 booths? The Holiday blog post was giving me the impression this was a side thing but then I saw 14 marketplaces- it sounds like we could have a much bigger F&W on our hands! (It's also entirely possible I'm going WAY overboard here in my excitement.) My main question: will the booths be open during the week this time?!! IMHO the crowds during the holiday season are enough to support them. Fingers crossed!

The booths were open during the week during F&W this spring. The special events only happened on weekends though. I imagine the marketplaces will be open every day. The F&W booths were a HUGE success this spring and I have heard Disney was very interested in expanding this concept in size and frequency. Had no idea they would do it again so soon though! That is great.

 

[gottalovepluto]

The booths were open during the week during F&W this spring. The special events only happened on weekends though. I imagine the marketplaces will be open every day. The F&W booths were a HUGE success this spring and I have heard Disney was very interested in expanding this concept in size and frequency. Had no idea they would do it again so soon though! That is great.

Oh thank goodness! I didn't get to go to spring F&W, only read blog announcements on it and for some reason I thought they were only open Fri-Sun. I'm one happy camper now!